The Biden crisis is now a game of chicken

Ever since the presidential debate, many have wondered why the Democratic Party would not get President Biden to step down as its nominee. The reason is it can’t.

In America, parties are shells in which political entrepreneurs operate at will. Democrats who have more or less revealed they want Biden out — a group that now includes Charles E. Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries — have no formal mechanism to eject him. All leaders can do is pressure Biden behind the scenes, publicly embarrass him (as they’re doing now), and threaten to leave him broke and alone on the trail.

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